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This study is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA), the aging program within ICPSR. NACDA
is sponsored by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) at the National Institutes of Heath (NIH).

National Senior Citizens Survey, 1968 (ICPSR 7626)

Principal Investigator(s):Schooler, Kermit

Summary:

This data collection contains the responses to a 1968
National Senior Citizens Survey of 3,996 noninstitutionalized persons
65 years of age and older in a national sample of the continental
United States. The primary emphasis of the survey was to determine the
impact of environmental attributes on some aspects of aging, primarily
life satisfaction, social relationships, and knowledge and use of
services. Also of interest were the interrelationships among
environment, social ... (more info)

This data collection contains the responses to a 1968
National Senior Citizens Survey of 3,996 noninstitutionalized persons
65 years of age and older in a national sample of the continental
United States. The primary emphasis of the survey was to determine the
impact of environmental attributes on some aspects of aging, primarily
life satisfaction, social relationships, and knowledge and use of
services. Also of interest were the interrelationships among
environment, social relationships, and morale. Administered with
personal interviews, the survey focused on characteristics of the
respondent's residential environment (e.g., physical characteristics
of home and neighborhood, value of property, and work/retirement
status), social relationships (e.g., organization memberships, family
relationships, and number of activities involved in), morale (e.g.,
self-concept, stated happiest time of life, attitudes about the state
of the world), and health (e.g., number of doctor visits in past year,
number of times health status interfered with activities, and self
rating of physical health). General demographic characteristics are
also included.

Universe:
Noninstitutionalized adults 65 years and over living in
the continental United States.

Data Types:
survey data

Data Collection Notes:

Multiplying the weight variable (Variable 817) by the
number of persons 65 years of age and over in the household (Variable
818) produces the Respondent Weight. The frequencies are unweighted.

Methodology

Sample:
National area probability sampling.

Data Source:

personal interviews

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Performed consistency checks.

Standardized missing values.

Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release:1984-03-18

Version History:

2005-11-04 On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one
or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well
as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable,
and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to
reflect these additions.